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I'd say not to read IT then. Not that its a bad book, per say, but it rather a chore to read. There are sections that really is much ado about nothing, such as an introspective piece about a woman (who is in one scene in the book) being on about her Jewish identity for too many pages. I almost gave up as I read it. So boring and annoying. Also, there are descriptions of people doing menial tasks like going through their day that don't pertain to the story that was a snore. Having said that, I enjoyed most of it. But Stephen King does get away with a lot because of his status as a prolific writer (which others may disagree on).
Also, I have heard book editors say that gratuitous detail is a faux pas and should be avoided and yet venerated authors (i.e. Charles Dickens) employed them. So, I think if authors are new people are more likely to pick at them for these errors than established authors. I have seen, Stephen King, for example, do the same things others hate new authors for doing and they say, "Well, he does it the right way." However, if I may go on a tangent, I don't think many of the new generation would feel secure if I gave them a copy of it or under the dome, as both of them are over 1000 pages. There's detail and then there's established authors who have paragraphs that last two pages that I could care less about. In short, I do agree with you here in that some books, if you took out the droning detail that is unnecessary, you very well could have a book that is much smaller.
